New York becomes first US state to require the 'dynamic' accessibility icon

In 2014, New York became the first US state to require newly installed or replaced accessibility signage to use the 'Accessible Icon' — a redesigned, forward-leaning wheelchair figure distinct from the original International Symbol of Access — and to prohibit the word 'handicapped' on such signage. The redesign grew out of a grassroots street-art initiative, the Accessible Icon Project.